The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the years of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".
Acts passed by the Parliament of England did not have a short title; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (such as the Short Titles Act 1896).
Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular act was passed.
An Act for granting an Aid to Her Majesty, by a Land Tax, to be raised in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for continuing the Duties on Low Wines and Spirits of the First Extraction, and the Duties payable by Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen; and Part of the Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, and the late Duties on Sweets, and the One Third Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage; and for settling and establishing a Fund thereby, and by the Application of certain Overplus-monies and otherwise, for Payment of Annuities, to be sold, for raising a further Supply to Her Majesty, for the Service of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven, and other Uses therein expressed. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for the settling of the Honours and Dignities of John Duke of Marlborough upon his Posterity; and annexing the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Bleinheim to go along with the said Honours.
An Act for settling upon John Duke of Marlborough and his Posterity a Pension of Five Thousand Pounds per Annum, for the more Honourable Support of their Dignities, in like Manner as his Honours and Dignities, and the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Bleinheim, are already limited and settled. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
An Act for repealing a Clause in an Act, intituled, "An Act for the better apprehending, prosecuting, and punishing Felons, that commit Burglaries, Housebreaking, or Robberies, in Shops, Ware-houses, Coach-houses, or Stables, or that steal Horses." (Repealed by Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1827)
An Act for regulating and ascertaining the Duties to be paid by the Unfreemen, Importers of Coals into the Port and Borough of Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
An Act for rendring more effectual an Act, passed in the First Year of Her Majesties Reign, intituled, "An Act for the better preventing Escapes out of the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons."[c] (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
An Act for the better recruiting Her Majesty's Land Forces and the Marines, for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for continuing an Act, made in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and false Musters; and for the better Payment of the Army and Quarters." (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for Enrolments of Bargains and Sales within the West-Riding of the County of York in the Register-office there lately provided; and for making the said Register more effectual. (Repealed by Yorkshire Registries Act 1884)
An Act for continuing the Duties upon Houses, to secure a Yearly Fund, for circulating Exchequer Bills, whereby a Sum, not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds, is intended to be raised, for carrying on the War, and other Her Majesty's Occasions. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for preventing Frauds frequently committed by Bankrupts. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act to subject the Estate of Thomas Brerewood to the Creditors of Thomas Pitkin, notwithstanding any Agreement or Composition made by the Creditors of the said Thomas Pitkin. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948)
An Act for discharging small Livings from their First Fruits and Tenths, and all Arrears thereof. (Repealed by First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. No. 5))
An Act for making the Acts more effectual, for appropriating the forfeited Impropriations in Ireland, for the building of Churches, and augmenting poor Vicarages, in Ireland. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950)
An Act for repairing the Highways between Sheppard Shord and The Devizes, and between the Top of Ashlington Hill and Rowdford, in the County of Wilts. (Repealed by Devizes Roads Act 1797)
An Act for continuing several Subsidies, Impositions, and Duties; and for making Provisions therein mentioned, to raise Money, by Way of Loan, for the Service of the War, and other Her Majesty's necessary and important Occasions; and for ascertaining the Wine Measure. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for raising the Militia for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven, notwithstanding the Month's Pay formerly advanced be not re-paid; and for an Accompt to be made of Trophy-money. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for Ease of Her Majesty's Subjects, in relation to the Duties upon Salt; and for making the like Allowances upon the Exportation of White Herrings, Flesh, Oatmeal, and Grain called Beer alias Bigg, as are to be made upon Exportation of the like from Scotland. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for the Continuance of the Laws for the Punishment of Vagrants; and for making such Laws more effectual. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act for continuing the Laws therein mentioned, relating to the Poor, and to the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield; and for suppressing of Piracy. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867)
An Act to enable Henry Grey, second Son of Richard Neville Esquire,[a] to change his Name from Nevill to Grey, according to the Will of Ralph Lord Grey deceased.[b]
An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Time being, to compound with Benjamine Niccoll, Citizen and late Merchant of London, and his Sureties, for the Debt owing by him to Her Majesty.
An Act for empowering the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland to grant a Commission to some Persons in England, to administer to Thomas Maule Esquire, Remembrancer of the said Court, the usual Oaths for the due Execution of his Office; and to enable him to take the Oaths, and subscribe the Declaration, in the Court of Chancery in England, instead of those requisite to be taken and subscribed by the Laws of England and Ireland, in order to qualify him to execute the said Office.
An Act to enable the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Thomond, an Infant, to make a Settlement of his Estate upon his Marriage (notwithstanding his Infancy); and for other the Purposes in the said Act mentioned.
An Act for discharging several Lands in the County of Worcester from the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds, given by the Will of Dame Elizabeth Rich Widow, deceased, for Charitable Uses; and charging the same upon other Lands, in the County of Berks.
An Act for supplying the Defect of an Appointment for the Provision of the Younger Children of John Canham Esquire, deceased, pursuant to his Marriage Settlement; and for settling an Estate in Totteridge, in Lieu of Thirteen Hundred Pounds, the Remainder of a Sum of Money agreed to be laid out in a Purchase.
An Act for Sale of some Part of the Estate of Henry Darell Esquire, deceased; and leasing or mortgaging other Part thereof, to raise Money, to pay his Debts charged thereupon; and for making Provision for his Widow and Younger Children.
An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of William Fitch Esquire, lying in the County of Dorset, in Trustees, to be sold, for the Payment of his Sister's Portion and other Debts; and for preserving the Residue free from all Power of Waste; and for settling certain Tithes in the Isle of Wighte to the same Uses.
An Act to empower the Lord High Treasurer of England, or Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Time being, to compound with Nathaniel Rich Esquire, late Receiver General for the County of Essex.
An Act for discharging divers Manors and Lands of Henry Duke of Beaufort, from the Portions of his Daughters and Younger Children by his present Dutchess; and for charging other Manors and Lands of the said Duke, of greater Value, with the like Portions.
An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of William Potts, for discharging his Brothers and Sisters Portions, and his Debts; and for confirming his Marriage Settlement, as to the Residue of his Estate, discharged of such Portions.
An Act for vesting Lands, in Chelsea, in the County of Middl'x, purchased of Charles Lord Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven in Scotland, in the Queen's Majesty, for the Accommodation of Chelsea Colledge; and other Lands in John Lord Vaughan, Earl of Carbury in Ireland, and his Heirs.
An Act for confirming and establishing the Partitions made between Wiiliam Pierrepont Esquire, since deceased, and the Honourable Charles Egerton Esquire, and others, of several Manors and Lands, in the Counties of Suffolk, Kent, and Surrey; and to enable William and Samuel Pierrepont, Infants, to make Partition of Lands in other Counties, and to sell the same, and purchase other Lands, to be settled to the same Uses; and for rectifying a Mistake in the Marriage Settlement of William Peck Esquire.
An Act for vesting in Trustees a Messuage and Lands in Ratcliffe Culey, in the County of Leicester, to be sold, upon the settling of another Estate, of as great or greater Value, to the same Uses as the Lands to be sold are settled.
An Act to vest certain Mills and Lands, in Downton, in the County of Wilts (the Estate of William Eyre a Lunatic), in Trustees, to be sold; and for applying Part of the Monies arising by the Sale thereof for Payment of the Debts of the said Lunatic, and making some Provision for Ambrose Eyre, his Eldest Son and Heir; and for applying the Residue of such Monies in purchasing of other Lands, to be settled to the same Uses as the said Premises to be sold are now settled.
An Act to enable Trustees to sell several Lands, at Cole-greene, within the Manor of Herting fordbury, in the County of Hertford, and the Manor of the Rectory of Hertingfordbury aforesaid, late the Estate of Anne Winwood, deceased, for Payment of a Debt of Six Hundred Pounds, and Interest, due upon Mortgage, and Bond or Specialty; and for laying out the Residue of the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of other Lands or Tenements, to be settled to the same Uses as the said Lands are now settled.
An Act for vesting a Mansion-house, and Lands thereunto adjoining, in the County of Middl'x, the Estate of William Hide Merchant, in Trustees, to be forthwith sold, for the better Maintenance and present Provision of his Children.
An Act to vest several Lands and Hereditaments, in the County of York, in Robert Hitch Esquire and his Heirs; and to settle other Lands and Hereditaments, in the said County, in Lieu thereof, and as an Exchange thereof, to the same Uses.
An Act for rectifying a Mistake, and for supplying the Defects, in an Act of the Third Year of Her Majesty's Reign,[c] for Sale of the Estate late of Edward Baines, for Discharge of a Mortgage thereupon; and for making Provision for his Daughters.
An Act for Sale of the Estate, in the County of Montgomery, late Part of the Estate of Gilbert Charlton Esquire, deceased; and for purchasing other Estate, or Estates, in the Counties of Nottingham, Leicester, or Lincolne, to be settled to the like Uses as the Estate in the County of Montgomery was settled.
An Act for Sale of certain Lands contained in the Marriage Settlement of Daniel King and Jane his Wife; and for purchasing other Lands, of the same or greater Value, to be settled to the same Uses; also for giving Liberty to Jane Nicoll Widow and the Executors of Sir William Prichard to pay Two Sums, of Four Thousand Pounds and Two Thousand Pounds, mentioned in the said Settlement, in the Life-time of the said Jane Nicoll.
An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of John Weedon, of Souldern, in the County of Oxon, Esquire, for Payment of his Father's Debts and Legacies, and Portions to his Younger Children; and for settling the rest of his Estate to the Uses of his Father's voluntary Settlement.
An Act for encouraging the re-building the ancient Parish Church of Humberston, in the County of Lincolne; and settling a Rent-charge, of greater Value, on the Bishop of Lincolne and his Successors, in Lieu of the Rectory of Humberston; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
An Act for vesting the Reversion in Fee of certain Manors and Lands, in the County of Kent, late the Estate of Mountague Drake Esquire, deceased, in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of his Debts and Legacies.
An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Time being, to compound with John Crosse Merchant, and his Sureties, for the Debt owing by him to Her Majesty.
An Act to enable the Lord Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Time being, to compound with John Pye Gentleman, and his Sureties, for the Debt by him and them owing to Her Majesty.
^ abcThe citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.